Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Love Between Brother and Sister ❯ Dealing With Annoyances ( Chapter 3 )
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Chapter 3: Dealing With Annoyances
Three days had passed and Hiei had yet to return to his post in the Makai.
Yusuke and Kuwabara had skipped school Monday to stop by the temple and visit Hiei, and today they appeared to be doing the same thing seeing how as at ten o’clock the two walked up the temple steps.
Kurama would probably come after school, as he had yesterday.
Keiko would drop by to yell at Yusuke for skipping school. The two no longer attended the same school, but she still seemed to know exactly what he was doing.
Yukina had constantly kept Hiei within eyesight and earshot as well. If she could not see him, she would talk to him, try to hold a conversation with him; a dialogue between the two instead of the monologue she normally found herself in when she spoke with Hiei.
He could have escaped at night - left when everyone was either gone or asleep - but then he would have hurt Yukina by not saying goodbye.
So he had stayed.
Against every logical thought within him, he had stayed.
He had a job to do, but he stayed.
Mukuro had no idea where he was, but he stayed.
The other five border patrol captains were probably pissed over having to cover his ground, but he stayed.
He was growing attached, but he stayed.
Hiei watched as Yukina prepared snacks and poured drinks for the two visitors.
She made him a small plate as well and left it near him, but she knew better than to expect him to eat it when those two were there. That was why she had always given him non-perishable food items. The plate would always be empty ten minutes after they left. That was how it had always been, even before Hiei had left four years ago.
His eyes remained on his sister after she had given Yusuke and Kuwabara their snacks, mainly because the two had yet to improve upon their eating habits.
“Ahh, no one can prepare a snack like you can my dear Yukina-chan,” Kuwabara said as he placed his now empty teacup down on the table.
Yukina just raised the sleeve of her kimono to cover her blush, “It was nothing Kazuma-san.”
Kuwabara took the chance to go off on a detailed description of how amazing her skills were of preparing snacks: how perfectly she formed her onigiri, how she poured the exact amount of tea to wash the snack down with, everything.
Hiei had to agree with the oaf on some level - Yukina seemed to anticipate everyone’s needs and wants and do exactly what needed to be done exactly when it needed to be done - but his rants annoyed the fire demon.
“My dear, sweet Yukina-chan, do not sell yourself short,” Kuwabara continued, “For your perfection extends far beyond your abilities at food preparation!”
He opened his mouth to continue, but he suddenly found a small couch pillow in it before he could say another word.
“We get it already,” Yusuke whined, “Shut up!”
“Good to know there is somebody else willing to do what it takes to shut the baka up,” Hiei smirked and Kuwabara glowered at him, but could not respond due to the obstruction in his mouth.
“Kazuma-san, here, let me help you,” Yukina offered as she helped pull the pillow out.
“What was that for Urameshi?!”
“To get you to shut up,” Yusuke replied with the same tone of annoyance Kuwabara had used, “It was getting old.”
“Why I oughtta-” Kuwabara began his threat, but unable to think up anything to complete with, he pounced on Yusuke instead.
The two wrestled with one another, rolling around on the floor, both trying to best the other.
Hiei watched in silent reminiscence as he was brought back to the days when he was a member of the team.
Yukina ran around, following the two fighting boys and catching fragile items they bumped into and knocked over.
It was about five minutes later when Kuwabara pulled himself, bruised and bloody, out from under Yusuke.
He crawled over to Yukina and knelt before her, unable to stand as he tried to work off his sudden case of vertigo.
“My dear Yukina-chan, I must apologize profusely for my crude, barbaric, and vicious behavior,” he said as he grabbed the ice maiden’s hands, “It was ungentlemanly conduct and I should not have participated in it. I allowed my anger to overrule my better judgement and-”
He would have continued, but he suddenly fell over onto the ground.
“You annoy me,” Hiei stated from his place right behind Kuwabara’s now fallen body.
“Cool!” Yusuke exclaimed from his spot on the ground, “Can you teach me that?”
Hiei smirked.
This was just way to easy.
“It is quite simple,” he said as he walked over to Yusuke and brought his right hand up. As soon as he walked within striking distance he quickly hits the pressure point in Yusuke’s neck and watched as Yusuke joined his human friend in unconsciousness.
“Hiei-san...?” Yukina could not help but ask, worried about the boys’ well-being.
“They’re fine,” he assured her as he walks over to the windowsill and grabbed a riceball from the plate near it, taking a large bite from it.
“The baka speaks sense,” he told his sister while giving her a pointed look and holding up the half-eaten onigiri for her to see. He then ate the rest as he walked out.
Yukina smiled happily and bowed her thanks to his retreating back.
“Arigatou,” she told the closed door.
----
It was four hours later when Yusuke and Kuwabara stumbled out into the afternoon light to find their old companion and it took them another fifteen minutes to find him training at top speed and top strength towards the back of the temple.
“Geeze Hiei, calm down a bit!”
“Yeah! Take a break.”
Hiei stopped mid-swing and looked to them in annoyance.
“I have already fallen behind in training due to your incessant need to talk,” he told the two of them, “You act like women, just sitting on the couch and chatting. It is quite despicable to see how low the two of you have sunk, which is - surprisingly - quite a distance considering where you were before.”
“Hey! I beat you before, so you have no room to talk,” Yusuke complained as he crossed his arms in front of his chest.
“That was mere luck and you and I both know it,” Hiei replied angrily. He hated being reminded of his failures, and one that bad is best never mentioned.
Yusuke grinned and then chuckled a bit, “Not mere luck; mirror luck!”
And the two of them fell down to the ground, rolling around in hysterics at the word play while Hiei silently steamed at the immaturity the two of them seemed to have yet to grow out of.
“You should watch what you say around me, tantei,” he said angrily as he released a bit of his carefully restrained youki.
Yusuke immediately stopped laughing and looked at Hiei.
“I’m not a spirit detective anymore Hiei; you know that,” he said solemnly.
“You will always be that lowlife to me, although now you should take the title as a compliment,” Hiei sneered as he began to walk past the two humans who still sat on the ground.
“That’s it! You’re cocky attitude is really pissing me off! Let’s fight!” Yusuke shouted as he jumped up from the ground.
“I would rather not waste my time,” Hiei stated in boredom as he used the hilt of his katana to bash Yusuke’s nose in and then turned the weapon around to point the blade at Yusuke’s neck.
He smirked before walking back inside the temple as Kuwabara watched in morbid fascination and Yusuke groaned in pain over his broken and bloody nose.
“Hey!” Yusuke cried as he brought his hands to his nose to try to catch the blood, “No faiw! I wad’t ready! Get back hewe!”
Three days had passed and Hiei had yet to return to his post in the Makai.
Yusuke and Kuwabara had skipped school Monday to stop by the temple and visit Hiei, and today they appeared to be doing the same thing seeing how as at ten o’clock the two walked up the temple steps.
Kurama would probably come after school, as he had yesterday.
Keiko would drop by to yell at Yusuke for skipping school. The two no longer attended the same school, but she still seemed to know exactly what he was doing.
Yukina had constantly kept Hiei within eyesight and earshot as well. If she could not see him, she would talk to him, try to hold a conversation with him; a dialogue between the two instead of the monologue she normally found herself in when she spoke with Hiei.
He could have escaped at night - left when everyone was either gone or asleep - but then he would have hurt Yukina by not saying goodbye.
So he had stayed.
Against every logical thought within him, he had stayed.
He had a job to do, but he stayed.
Mukuro had no idea where he was, but he stayed.
The other five border patrol captains were probably pissed over having to cover his ground, but he stayed.
He was growing attached, but he stayed.
Hiei watched as Yukina prepared snacks and poured drinks for the two visitors.
She made him a small plate as well and left it near him, but she knew better than to expect him to eat it when those two were there. That was why she had always given him non-perishable food items. The plate would always be empty ten minutes after they left. That was how it had always been, even before Hiei had left four years ago.
His eyes remained on his sister after she had given Yusuke and Kuwabara their snacks, mainly because the two had yet to improve upon their eating habits.
“Ahh, no one can prepare a snack like you can my dear Yukina-chan,” Kuwabara said as he placed his now empty teacup down on the table.
Yukina just raised the sleeve of her kimono to cover her blush, “It was nothing Kazuma-san.”
Kuwabara took the chance to go off on a detailed description of how amazing her skills were of preparing snacks: how perfectly she formed her onigiri, how she poured the exact amount of tea to wash the snack down with, everything.
Hiei had to agree with the oaf on some level - Yukina seemed to anticipate everyone’s needs and wants and do exactly what needed to be done exactly when it needed to be done - but his rants annoyed the fire demon.
“My dear, sweet Yukina-chan, do not sell yourself short,” Kuwabara continued, “For your perfection extends far beyond your abilities at food preparation!”
He opened his mouth to continue, but he suddenly found a small couch pillow in it before he could say another word.
“We get it already,” Yusuke whined, “Shut up!”
“Good to know there is somebody else willing to do what it takes to shut the baka up,” Hiei smirked and Kuwabara glowered at him, but could not respond due to the obstruction in his mouth.
“Kazuma-san, here, let me help you,” Yukina offered as she helped pull the pillow out.
“What was that for Urameshi?!”
“To get you to shut up,” Yusuke replied with the same tone of annoyance Kuwabara had used, “It was getting old.”
“Why I oughtta-” Kuwabara began his threat, but unable to think up anything to complete with, he pounced on Yusuke instead.
The two wrestled with one another, rolling around on the floor, both trying to best the other.
Hiei watched in silent reminiscence as he was brought back to the days when he was a member of the team.
Yukina ran around, following the two fighting boys and catching fragile items they bumped into and knocked over.
It was about five minutes later when Kuwabara pulled himself, bruised and bloody, out from under Yusuke.
He crawled over to Yukina and knelt before her, unable to stand as he tried to work off his sudden case of vertigo.
“My dear Yukina-chan, I must apologize profusely for my crude, barbaric, and vicious behavior,” he said as he grabbed the ice maiden’s hands, “It was ungentlemanly conduct and I should not have participated in it. I allowed my anger to overrule my better judgement and-”
He would have continued, but he suddenly fell over onto the ground.
“You annoy me,” Hiei stated from his place right behind Kuwabara’s now fallen body.
“Cool!” Yusuke exclaimed from his spot on the ground, “Can you teach me that?”
Hiei smirked.
This was just way to easy.
“It is quite simple,” he said as he walked over to Yusuke and brought his right hand up. As soon as he walked within striking distance he quickly hits the pressure point in Yusuke’s neck and watched as Yusuke joined his human friend in unconsciousness.
“Hiei-san...?” Yukina could not help but ask, worried about the boys’ well-being.
“They’re fine,” he assured her as he walks over to the windowsill and grabbed a riceball from the plate near it, taking a large bite from it.
“The baka speaks sense,” he told his sister while giving her a pointed look and holding up the half-eaten onigiri for her to see. He then ate the rest as he walked out.
Yukina smiled happily and bowed her thanks to his retreating back.
“Arigatou,” she told the closed door.
----
It was four hours later when Yusuke and Kuwabara stumbled out into the afternoon light to find their old companion and it took them another fifteen minutes to find him training at top speed and top strength towards the back of the temple.
“Geeze Hiei, calm down a bit!”
“Yeah! Take a break.”
Hiei stopped mid-swing and looked to them in annoyance.
“I have already fallen behind in training due to your incessant need to talk,” he told the two of them, “You act like women, just sitting on the couch and chatting. It is quite despicable to see how low the two of you have sunk, which is - surprisingly - quite a distance considering where you were before.”
“Hey! I beat you before, so you have no room to talk,” Yusuke complained as he crossed his arms in front of his chest.
“That was mere luck and you and I both know it,” Hiei replied angrily. He hated being reminded of his failures, and one that bad is best never mentioned.
Yusuke grinned and then chuckled a bit, “Not mere luck; mirror luck!”
And the two of them fell down to the ground, rolling around in hysterics at the word play while Hiei silently steamed at the immaturity the two of them seemed to have yet to grow out of.
“You should watch what you say around me, tantei,” he said angrily as he released a bit of his carefully restrained youki.
Yusuke immediately stopped laughing and looked at Hiei.
“I’m not a spirit detective anymore Hiei; you know that,” he said solemnly.
“You will always be that lowlife to me, although now you should take the title as a compliment,” Hiei sneered as he began to walk past the two humans who still sat on the ground.
“That’s it! You’re cocky attitude is really pissing me off! Let’s fight!” Yusuke shouted as he jumped up from the ground.
“I would rather not waste my time,” Hiei stated in boredom as he used the hilt of his katana to bash Yusuke’s nose in and then turned the weapon around to point the blade at Yusuke’s neck.
He smirked before walking back inside the temple as Kuwabara watched in morbid fascination and Yusuke groaned in pain over his broken and bloody nose.
“Hey!” Yusuke cried as he brought his hands to his nose to try to catch the blood, “No faiw! I wad’t ready! Get back hewe!”